Social Worker, Grief/Loss Expert, Author
3-A Coping Training
Coming in 2026
A Virtual Wellness Program from a Loss Perspective
Coping Through
Situational Loss
Applying the 3-A Coping Framework: Acknowledge, Assess, Assist ®
*Servicing Ontario Residents
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Coping Through Situational Loss is a virtual training program for professionals to assist clients/patients and to assist themselves personally. The objective of this psychoeducational training is to empower by providing you with the coping tools to monitor yourself with awareness through a context involving situational loss. You are equipped to strengthen inner resiliency through training in applying the innovative markers of the 3-A Coping Framework: Acknowledge, Assess, Assist. You strengthen inner resiliency and wellbeing by obtaining a new language and new perspective for coping NOT with the "symptoms" but rather the "reactions" to tough times involving situational loss.
Module 1: Acknowledging & Addressing the Situational Loss Context
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Defining situational loss with a focus on unmasking the different forms of losses encountered in life altering tough situations. Also, the markers of the 3-A Coping Framework are described as a means of addressing the situational losses.
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Module 2: Assess Your Experience: From Calm to Overwhelming Reaction
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Exploring and raising awareness of the reaction, not only to loss due to death but also to the losses that are experienced in various other adverse situations (e.g. illness in the family, job loss). Specific reactions and different styles of coping with the situational losses are assessed.
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Module 3: Assist to Self Nurture: Grief Processing
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Providing tips with an emphasis on the assist method of grief processing to address loss, offering empowering guidance to monitor yourself with self awareness for wellbeing and directing how to apply the 3-A Framework: Acknowledge, Assess, Assist for optimum coping as it was originally designed as a means to address loss
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Following can be ordered with or after the 3 Modules:
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​ Assist to Self Nurture: Mindfulness for Everyone
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Training and demonstrating the assist method of mindfulness for everyone within the 3-A Coping Framework, describing conventional mindfulness and then moving into a modified version to include those assessed as mindfully challenged whether it be due to cognitive deficits or due to difficulty following the conventional practice (eg. racing thoughts that make it difficult to sit for a lengthy duration)
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More details will be available soon!
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